Funnily enough, considering its many purported benefits, vitamin C (ascorbic acid) is one of the vitamins that doctors are least likely to prescribe to patients. Vitamin A is given to all small children in many countries, as is vitamin D. Vitamin D is of course also frequently prescribed to patients with osteoporosis. Vitamin B1 (thiamin) is regularly given to alcoholics, to prevent Wernicke-Korsakoff disease. B3 … Read more
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Vitamin C: effective against the common cold?
In 1970, two time Nobel prize winner Linus Pauling published a book called “Vitamin C and the common cold”. In it he argued that large supplemental doses of vitamin C could be used to decrease the length and severity of colds. This was the beginning of decades of controversy surrounding vitamin C (a.k.a. ascorbic acid) and its role in preventing respiratory infections, and resulted in … Read more